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Agent Pegasus Field Notes: Some date or another

Sparrow and I have become separated beyond the Veil. On approximately the fifteenth day of our journey (or it could very well be the five hundredth, it’s very difficult to tell here) we were scaling a jagged cliff-face, an activity to which Sparrow annoyingly objected for several hours until I threatened him with bodily harm. We came to a small rope bridge. It seemed sturdy enough, but promptly collapsed the moment I began to swing it violently back and forth to teach Sparrow a lesson about spontaneity.

I feel a curious sort of maternal concern. Sparrow is hardly what one would call equipped to cope with this type of environment on his own. He is far too analytical and, despite what he would have you believe, cautious. However, this could avail itself to be a blessing in disguise--to borrow the Muggle phrase. We’ve been directed beyond the Veil for a reason. I’ve no idea what part Sparrow is to play.

Still, I may try to track him down. I can’t forget the time he broke his ankle during the Ministry’s Interdepartmental potato sack race.

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Agent Pegasus Field Report: December 24th, 2001

An epidemic of the rare magical curse Apraxis Horribilis has stricken the south of Norway. Victims suffer from an inability to move their extremities, until their limbs gradually atrophy, then blacken to cinders. The disease is normally caused by the consumption of expired or poorly brewed potions. The Department's aid has been requested. All other Agents currently on leave for Christmas dinner.

I've never been to Norway before. I intend to expense as many regional delicacies as possible to the Giltfeather Committee while I'm there.

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Agent Pegasus Field Notes: November 24th, 2001

The biennial Department performance review and networking brunch this Friday was interrupted by the spectacular malfunctioning of the Patented Daydream Chamber. A family of giant squids and accompanying swamp teeming with magical aquatic life materialized in the Chamber halfway through the first round of toasts, and rapidly spread to the rest of the Department. The absence of Red, who is as undeniably deft a hand at Charms as he is a bastard, left myself, Sparrow, and Pearl to shoulder the bulk of the struggle to round up the creatures. Our intrepid Head Price was conveniently away on an errand for the Minister at the time.

Luckily, I was able to slip away in the midst of the chaos and remove the rather large quantity of unsanctioned communications between Delta, Sparrow, and Bluebell stored in Delta's desk to keep them from being damaged by the rising water levels. I was also able to relocate one of the squids to my flat. The flood was contained, and the creatures rounded up and tagged.

Everything is going according to plan.

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Agent Pegasus Field Notes Copy: October 12th, 2001

The Department has confiscated (read: requisitioned for Department use) a trunk full of dangerous artifacts being peddled by Knockturn dealers. Among said artifacts: five fishing rods capable of reeling in an adult whale, giant squid, or family of Merpeople. The fishing rods seem to be finding their way primarily into the hands of magical poachers gathered on the New Zealand coastline.

Agent Red has suggested using the items in question to locate and retrieve the Rusalka of project Winter. The Giltfeather committee has tabled the issue following a furious outburst of disapprobation from Agent Delta.

Point of order: remember to buy Delta a pint.

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Psychological Evaluation Profile Copy: Agent Pegasus

The following is a full diagnostic of pending Department Agent Pegasus, currently detained under charges of sedition. Agent Sparrow has volunteered to act as spokesperson for the defense, opposite interrogator Agent Red.

Review of Pegasus's background file indicates pending Agent was raised under the supervision of a Squib elder brother (mother dead, father engaged in standard Department secrecy and detachment training), with whom she traveled for some time as a member of a Muggle circus. At Hogwarts Pegasus received O's across the board, and graduated a recipient of Barnabus Finkley's Award for Exceptional Spellcasting. She remains in contact with her brother, but maintains few other interpersonal relationships outside the Department, as is often the case with high-ranking Agents. Pegasus has never married, and claims to harbor no romantic or physical attraction whatsoever. Pending Agent's work for the Department until recent incidents involving the Veil of Passing has been universally recognized as innovative and beyond reproach.

Temporary Agent Bluebell, on behalf of trainee Delta, has advocated for Pegasus's reinstatement. Agents Red and Pearl have countered that infractions concerning the Veil of Passing qualify Pegasus for Obliviation and Deportation under the Giltfeather Committee's Codes of Conduct. However, the Departmental Charter set out by Cottismore Croyne explicitly allows for a margin of misconduct in the interest of research and advancement.

Pegasus currently considered volatile, but a minimal threat. Her refusal to comply with interrogation has been put down to trauma as a result of exposure to unnatural circumstances. Verdict will be rendered in one week's time.

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[x - xi // All credit for concepts of wand use origins to thepostmodernpottercompendium, a splendid and imaginative blog, and lovely regular contributor essayofthoughts.]

Agent Pegasus Field Notes: March 11th, 2001 [1]

Authorities on Wandlore are divided on the subject of early wand use and regulation. The late, celebrated wandmaker Gregorovitch was an advocate of the theory, widely disputed in academic circles, that wands were originally devised as a sanction to be imposed upon powerful wixen lawbreakers.

English historians are prone to finding all sorts of ways of attributing significant magical inventions and milestones to British wixen. However, there is some evidence to suggest that, despite outlandish claims by one Abraxas Malfoy in the mid-twentieth century, wandlore may have its roots in early magical prison colonies under the Roman empire, rather than the work of a few enterprising wixen craftsmen.

There is some consensus among scholars that the era of classical antiquity coincides with a final period wherein the last vestiges of what is now termed "old magic" was routinely practiced. In light of what little is understood about the sheer scope of power involved in the invocation of old magic, Gregorovitch leads a small but adamant group of amateur historians in contending that wands were introduced to detention camps so as to punish and limit the most grievous offenders. Given the idea that untempered magic could be wielded in a more complex and powerful fashion when the wix was given free rein, it is possible that forcing an offender to channel their magic through an artifact such as a primitive wand was intended to temper the subject's destructive capabilities.

Avenues of wandlore concerning the focusing/simplifying symbiotic connection between a wix and their conductive instrument of choice (the choice, we understand, being the wand's and not the wix's) ought to be investigated in conjunction with casefile Rosewater, which appears to be preoccupied with a recent proliferation in magical mishaps and catastrophes. Possibly, the wixen public is recalling subject Emperor's recent public assertions that wand allegiances can be changed, and people are beginning to mistrust their wands.

[1] Addendum by Agent Price on April 17th: Unsanctioned Material, Pending Review.

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Agent Delta Field Notes Original Copy: July 29th, 2000

I've been contacted by someone named Pegasus, who insists on remaining anonymous and on my secrecy. So far contact has only been made through Legilimency during hours of sleep, which likely means Pegasus is not hiding at too great a distance from my own residence. I've warded the flat twice over just in case, but have agreed not to tell anyone about her so far. She seems harmless, though she's in the habit of magicking herself a blank face so that I won't be able to recognize her.

All she'll tell me is "Don't trust Red." I can't say I don't see where the observation comes from, though Agent Red has been polite enough. Normally I would report all this to Price or Sparrow, but my brother always did say It's Important To Give People A Chance To Show What They're Made Of.

I've set up a few of his old cameras around the flat on a time delay in case this Pegasus decides to come snooping. Most wizards can easily foil basic wards, but Muggle technology, not so much.

Training is going well. They put me in a room with a werewolf, so that was fascinating.

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Agent Sparrow Field Notes: June 24th, 2000

Lavinia Blishwick, thespian ingenue and wizarding socialite, has officially made her intention to apply for Agent Pegasus's vacant Department position known. Blishwick is best known for her role in the annual Rowle Wizarding Artistry Showcase in Glastonbury, as well as her bold wardrobe choices at key society events.

I am reviewing Blishwick's history as per Agent Price's request to vet all potential applicants. Subject has previously been approached by the Russian Ministry for recruitment to wizarding intelligence services. All signs indicate that she declined. Blishwick has also been involved in various roles requiring advanced offensive magic. By all accounts subject appears to be an ideal recruit.

Am not convinced Blishwick could adequately fill Pegasus's shoes.